- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Indian home minister Amit Shah on Monday (26) inaugurated a flyover and a primary health centre near the city of Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat that goes to polls later this year.
Shah, who is the second most powerful man in India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after prime minister Narendra Modi, was on a two-day visit to Gujarat starting Monday. He was set to take participate in a host of programmes, including a farmers’ conference in Ahmedabad district.
In the morning, Shah inaugurated a flyover near Bhadaj village on SP Ring Road on the city’s outskirts, which falls under his Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.
This six-lane flyover has been built by the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) at a cost of Rs 73 crore (£8.35 million) to ease traffic congestion on the busy Bhadaj circle of the ring road, a release by the Gujarat government said.
Later, Shah inaugurated a primary health centre in Virochannagar village of Sanand taluka, which also falls under his parliamentary constituency.
As per the official schedule, the minister would also lay the foundation stone for a hospital to be run by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) at Sanand in Ahmedabad district.
In the afternoon, he was set to attend a farmers’ conference at Bavla village in Ahmedabad district.
Farmers from Shah’s Gandhinagar parliamentary constituency are organising the ‘Rin Sweekar Sammelan’ (gratitude acceptance conference) to express gratitude for providing irrigation facilities in 164 villages, the government release said.
[With PTI inputs]
